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Excerpt from The Ophthalmic Review, Vol. 7: A Monthly Record of Opthalmic Science
Last August I had occasion to needle for cataract in the case of a young girl of 14, Janet Maxwell, from Lochmaben, Dumfries. The vision was at the time of the operation reduced in both eyes to mere perception of light, corresponding to the existing condition, viz., dense complete cataract. She stated that her blindness had come on slowly after she was six years of age, and after she had begun to learn to read. Little more than a month afterwards a cousin of hers was admitted to the Royal Infirmary, under Dr. Argyll Robertson, and needled by him in October. In this patient, Jemima King, aged 16, cataract also began to develop at the age of six or seven years.
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